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Chapter 7 - The Crepusculars: Criollo Modernism and the Invention of the Literary Province

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 March 2024

By
Luis Vicente de Aguinaga
Edited by
José Ramón Ruisánchez Serra ,
Anna M. Nogar  and
Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado
José Ramón Ruisánchez Serra
Affiliation:
University of Houston
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Summary

This chapter deals with another group of modernistas, mostly from the Catholic cities of Western Mexico, who are quite different from those examined in Chapter 6. Although they often met with the other group in Mexico City or shared the pages of the Revista Moderna, their approach to modernity is so different that it deserves a separate analysis. Modernismo can be defined by its able incorporation of Romanticism, Symbolism, and Parnassianism, but in the case of this group, there is a scepticism towards several aspects of these aesthetic movements, which always acts as a path that leads back to provincial life, landscape, and a national (and again Catholic) decorum. The authors studied in this chapter include Luis G. Urbina, Enrique González Martínez, Francisco González León, Manuel José Othón, and, in pride of place, Ramón López Velarde.

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IntimacylandscapeCatholicismCriolloLuis G. UrbinaEnrique González MartínezFrancisco González León, Manuel José Othón, Father Plascencia, Ramón López Velarde.
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A History of Mexican Poetry , pp. 126 - 142
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2024

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